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O DOO O O DO OOGO DDE E3 O E3Q O ODD OOiO Weather Max. Vin. Preciaw Salaaa U T .M Portland . , al 7 .M San Franciaco 71 M .M Chiearo , M a .n. New York: 73 M XI Willamette river -3 1 fact. FORECAST from U.f. w-ather bui V. au. McNarjr field, Salami: Cloud v Uta momin, rlrarin by noon. Hihat temperature today near M. lowest ta night near SO. Winda will Interfere will dusting today. othvr weather will be favorable for ail terra xoeitata. I mat Moras ram cms POUNI 1651 NINETY -SEVENTH YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thursday. August 28, 1947 Price 5c No. 131 DBD I attended a luncheon in Port land Tuesday honoring the new president of Standard Oil Com pany of California, R. G. Follis. In his talk following the meal President Follis discussed the irvntinnt of his company in the development of petroleum sup plies in the middle, east. B means of charts he showed the present . flow of oil from pro ducing to consuming centeri and pointed out the expected results in the increasing supply to come from the fields of Bahrein island In the Persian gull and Saudi Arabia. The United States has been the world's chief supplier of petroleum T.mr!iir"t The erowth of demand t home and abroad has been so great that Just at present exports and imports are about in balance, &ni vm-t soon thu country will have to import crude or refined j cil nd gasoline. The flow at present 1st Export to Europe from Texas and the midcontinent field; imports from Venezuela to our. north Atlantic ports. Venezuela a bo exports to Europe. At present a thin trickle f oil flows west from the middle east to European countries; and some goes east to help supply Asia. When pipelines to the Mediterranean are completed from the middle east fields and additional refinery capacity pro vided oil from that region will supply Europe. This will permit the shutting off of the flow from cur own mid-continent field and perhaps allow more of Venezulean oil to come to our North Atlantic market. With the curtailment of export from this country there will not ( Continued on editorial page) Stock Showing, Sale End 4-H Events Today Livestock showmanship classes will feature this morning's annual Marion county 4-H fall show at the state fairgrounds and the fat stock sale at 7:30 tonight will bring the three-day program to a close. Twentyone fat steers, 20 sheep and 13 hogs will be sold with Ben and Lane Sudtell, Albany auc tioneers, officiating in the sales ring...--- tv-V.t.-; .., - The fat stock sale, always the highlight of the 4-H stock show, is being held at night for the first time in Marion county and is expected to attract all of the usual crowd plus those who in the past have, not been able to get away for it Linn county's fat stock sale has for several years been held under the stars in Bryant park and is scheduled to be held this year on Friday night, .the day after the Marion county iaale.. .. The showmanship classes, al ways interesting to stockmen and women, are expected to draw especially good crowds this year because of the early arrivals for the state fair. Winners In the various classes in most cases be come the Marion county exhibitor at the state fair next week. Floyd Fox jr., many time winn er, took first and second places Wednesday for his beef animals and Henry Kraus of ML Angel was third. Roy Girod of ' Labish Center, placed first for pen of fat bogs, and Jerry Jesky of Aurora, took top honors for in dividual hogs. Visitors to Salem Hurt in Accident Charles W. Pribbeno of 4nde pendence. Mo., visiting at the home of H. C. Trobridge In Sa lem, is confined in Dallas hospital today with injuries received Wed nesday night in an auto accident north of Dallas. According to hospital reports last night, Pribbeno received bead, back ifhd neck injuries but his condition was not regarded as serious. He was returning from the beach when the car he was driving collided with truck at Fir Villa about 6 P-m.. according to Polk county sheriffs deputies who investigated the accident Animal Crackers Br WARREN GOODRICH 7 hardly know how to say thi$, George.. mean there $ something I think you should know . . . we're coin? to have a .. oVjoatMa a- nW'l3 New Racing Representative of the bangtails which will be providing thrills for racing fans at this year's Oregon state fair are the horses, shown enjoying the sunshnie from their stalls In stables newly built di rectly east ef the grandstand across the Lone Oak race track at the state falrrroands here. More space, better construction and protection to the animals are a feature of the new stable area. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) (Other fairgrounds photos on farm page.) Malheur County Doused With DDT to Halt Polio ONTARIO, Ore., Aug. 21-JPy-Airplanes sprayed Malheur county communities with a DDT solution late today as health authorities worked to prevent spread of poliomyelitis that has stricken five per sons in the area of this small eastern Oregon community on the Idaho-Oregon border. The county fair and rodeo have been postponed, the opening of schools delayed two weeks and a state sponsored team of medical specialists scheduled to arrive here from Portland tomorrow night Dr. A. L. Mauldmg, Maineur county health officer, said tne spraying by airplanes would con tinue tomorrow and rnaay ana until there were indications the spread of the disease has slowed or halted. Four cases are at Adrian, about 12 miles south of here, and three- year old Thomas R. Smith, the only case in Ontario proper, is en route by ambulance ; across the state tonight to a Portland Isola tion hospital. v, . Boise Delays School Opening BOISE. Aug. 27-)-The open ing of Boise schools was set back 1C days to September 19 as south western Idaho's infantile paraly sis epidemic sent f three .more patients to . the hospital today for a year's total of 77 seven times the number stricken in the same 1946 period. PORTLAND. Aug. 27PV-The State Board of Health reported today there have been 34 cases of poliomyelitis in the state this year to the week ending August 23 compared to 56 cases in the same period of 1946. There were six new cases during that week, the largest number for a single week since last October. Five Cases In Marlon County Five cases of poliomyelitis have occurred in Marion county since July 1, and the county has had no cases for the past two weeks, Dr. W. J. Stone, Marion county health officer, said last night He said the peak of the polio curve is reached the first week of Sep tember and then declines. The county's low polio rate is attributed by Dr. Stone relatively to cooler temperatures here. Lovett Asks For fRealism' WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -VPh The state department, obviously concerned over reports that Eur ope may ask more than $29,000, 000,000 from the United States under the Marshall plan, served notice today that the European recovery program must be rea sonable and realistic. Undersecretary of State Robert A. Lovett told reporters that the United States is looking to the 16-nation Paris conference to pro duce such a program. It should. he said, call for diminishing de majids- year by year on American aid. Coiirgc In Radio Speaking Offered For Adult Class A new course in public speak inc and radio speaking will be sponsored by the adult education classes, beginning September IS in the Salem high school, accord' ing to an announcement Wednes day by George Porter, director. Instructor for the course will be Del Ramsdell. instructor of English at Salem high school. Porter said. Ramsdell also has charge of radio, public address and voice recording training at th high school and has had three years experience as program an nouncer and newscasting at radio station KRNR, Roseburg. BOY STUNG TO DEATH MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 27-fP) Six-year-old Billy Fulerson was stung to death by insects which attacked him about the head and body today. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Stables Ready for State Fair Dispute Over, Meadows Gafe Reopens Today The Meadows restaurant, 340 State st. for the past 10 days by a union-management dispute, will reopen today at 10 a.m. Meadows' proprietor Herman Rieck and A. B. Pederson, secre tary of the Salem culinary alliance local 450, said Wednesday that hey had - - reached a complete settlement and signed a union shop contact The ' dispute in volved Rieck's : refusal to sign a union shop contracL Rieck closed his restaurant's doors August 16 when the union took The Meadows' empolyes off the Job. Pederson alio announced the signing this week of union shop contracts with Wheel r Inn on the Wallace road, operated by! Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Wheeler, and with the Chuck Wagon, 1124 Edge water st. West Salem,' oper ated by Pearl Lyons and Wanda Katasa. Training 1059s En Route Here Schooling for marine reserves of C battery, 4th 105mm howitzer battalion, got under way at their meeting at the airport Wednesday night, Maj. Leonard Hicks, reserve commander, reported. Part of the session was given over to re ports on the two-week bivouec at Camp j Pendleton, Calif., attended by five men from the local battal ion. " Major Hicks said Issuing of uni forms to men in the unit had been just about completed and that four 105mm guns for use of the group were enroute to Salem. The guns are to be set up near the bat talion s building at the airport 5 Major Utilities Get BPA Power PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27-P- Bonneville power administration said today that contracts guaran teeing delivery of 335,000 kilowatts of power during the next year to five major private utility com panies would go into effect Sept 1 It will be the first time that all the northwest's major private utilities have had contracts for specific amounts of power. ; The five firms agreed upon the division of the 335,000 available kilowatts. and decided to share. in the cost of steam generating plants, - which may be needed to supply addition al power. Allan Carson Named To Interim Committee State. Sen. Allan Carson, Salem attorney, Wednesday was ap pointed a member of the veterans affairs legislative committee in place of Senator Lee Patterson of Multnomah county, who died re cently. The interim committee was created by the 1947 legisla ture. Mice 130 of Them Coming for State Fpir Although 130 mice will be guests of: the Oregon state fair their year, feminine fair patrons, need have no fear of hysterical, consequences. The mice vill be kept under lock and key, fair officials say, and are to be used for saliva tests on all winning and place horses during the fair racing meet to detect doped racers. U.N. Atomic Group Agreed On Controls LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y.. Aug. 27 J)K majority of the United Na tions Atomic Energy commission agreed today on general principles for operating an International Atomic Control agency which have been advocated by the United States. This meant that, in effect, the commission has approved the skeleton of its second report to the United Nations Security coun cil, due by September 15. Russia took no part in drafting these principles and has frequent ly expressed opposition to several of them. After general statements delegates showed no sign of speak ing further until Russia is heard, and Andrei A. Gromyko, of Rus sia, finally said he would speak Friday. Frederick H. Osborn. United States atomic deputy, told the " r w . today that .his government "Is fully prepared to accept" working papers which have been drawn up by subcommittee in prepara tion lor the second report. Greeks Hint 'Neutral' Head For Coalition ATHENS. GREECE. Thursday. Aug. 28 -r p) - Premier-Designate Constantin Tsaldaris announced today he would meet with political leaders who participated in the recently-resigned cabinet of De- metrios Maximos to examine the possibility of forming a coalition government for Greece. Observers interpreted Tsaldaris' statement as meaning he had ac cepted the principle that a neutral premier would have to be named to organize such a coalition. Gen. Napoleon Zervas, minister of public order in the Maximos cabinet has struck with Tsaldaris during the crisis and is likely to be advanced by the premier designate as a nominee for the new government. This is expected to be unacceptable to the leaders of other parties. The Maximos cabinet collapsed because of an internal dispute partly centering on Zervas min istry. Vacation on Wane, Principals Return Although Salem school children have about three more weeks of bookless bliss, all city school principals are returning to their desks today to prepare the field for another school season. No date has yet been set for registration, public school offi cials said I Wednesday. Supervis ors will go back tcu school Sep tember 4 and librarians are slated to begin duties on. week before classes begin, September 15, school officials said. . . $2 Billion U. Program WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 A proposal that the nation spend more than $2,000,000,000 a year by 1957 for scientific research as a major factor "in national sur vival" was made today in a re port to President Truman. Asserting "the security and prosperity of the United- States depend today, as never before, upon the rapid extension of sci entific knowledge," John R. Steel man, chairman of the president's scientific research board, in a 59-page document declared: MA nation which is backward in fundamental scientific knowl edge which falls behind others in the exploration of the unknown would be severely handicapped in any future war." commission's political committaeTir" :ir?- U. S. Asks Veto Use Curtailed LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.. Aug. 27 0P)-The United States tos.ei be fore the security council tonight a batch of ideas for abolishing the bitterly-contested veto on all question except direct steps to preserve world peace. Kussia immediately seized on this move as an attempt to revise the United Nations charter and warned that it was doomed to failure. A wordy battle ensued as the council debated for the first time a 1946 eeneral ass-embly resolu tion asking it to do something about the veto situation. The matter has been reting in a coun cil pigeon hole since last January 2 and was brought out now only as a courtesy to the assembly, which meets September 16. HerM-hel V. Johnson, United States deputy, set off a long chain of speculation when he offered a two-page document listing items which should be settled by a ma jority vote of seven members of the council. These included "such decisions as those pertaining to the appoint ment of a committee or com mission ..." This aroused im mediate speculation among dele gates to the effect that the United Slates might be trying to get around the Soviet veto of a pro posed Balkans border watch com mission or the French veto of a suggested Indonesian investiga tion commission. The council voted to pass the whole question on to its commit tee of experts, then adjourned without taking any action on the veto resolution. Legion Blasts Reds on Eve Of Convention NEW YORK, Aug. 27-(P)-The American Legion's foreign rela- txata - . uMvi am a ff akaak Klactai1 fiom 1UWIIISJ1I CS0 1 -a k. S I V 1M4V.W in the field of international re lations facing America" in a re port issued late today on the eve of the Legion's 29th national con vention. To combat communism, the committee urged strong back ing of the' MarshalT plan for aid to Europe, "control of the acute situation in the Balkans, coupled with a strengthening of the Unit ed Nations." Meanwhile, frolicking Legion naires took over most of the city's hotels and fun spots. Lt. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, the army s acting deputy chief of staff, told the LeKion national de fense commission that the army had shrunk to the point where only two and one-third divisions actually were ready now for com bat. Already discussed by early Le gion arrivals and sure to be tackled in convention sessions are atomic energy security, universal military training, a civilian de fense program, relations with Russia. OSTS Escapees Caught by Police PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27 -(JP) Two escapees from the Oregon state training school for boys, Woodburn, were captured in southeast Portland today riding in an automobile police said had been stolen. Sgt. W. J. Hilbruner arrested the boys, William Clark, 16, and Henry Strickland, 17, and city detectives reported after ques tioning them that the juveniles had admitted stealing another automobile during the past few weeks. They escaped Aug. 12. Roiiml-the-WorM Cub Flier Off to Scotland WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -(JP) Cliff Evans, 27, of Washington, and George Truman, 39, of Los Angeles, the side-by-side pilots who are flying two Piper Cub planes around the world, left Iceland at 4:30 p.m. (EST) today en route to Prestwick, Scotland. T m ' S. Scientific Goal of Steelman's Board In setting the more than $2,000, 000,000 goal for 1957 one per cent of the entire national income the report said it would mean more than doubling, within the next decade, the present $1,100, 000,000 expended by the federal government, industry and univer sities for research and develop ment. President Truman, in a state ment accompanying the report, said: "We must constantly enlarge the boundaries,of scientific knowl edge in order to continue to pro vide the benefits of full produc tion and full employment, and in order to protect our democracy from the dangers it faces in an uneasy worhL" irMsb Foodlo Fleasaoires Rilove to IBm Truman Flying to Rio; Will Address Parley WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-P-President Truman will leave here in his private airplane Sunday for Rio de Janeiro, where he will ad dress the Inter-American conference on Tuesday. The chief executive will be a guest of the Brazilian government until the following Sun day. Then he will board the battleship Missouri to cruise back to the United States. Real Estate Board Indicted In Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -(P) The government's war on balloon ing living costs produced criminal charges Unlay that the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the Washington Real Estate Boards violated the anti-trust laws. Attorney General Clark an nounced that a federal grand jury had indicted the organizations on grounds they conspired to fix commission rates for real estate dealers in the District of Colum bia. The maximum penalty is a $5000 fine aftainst each. The announcement followed by 15 days an order by the attorney general for the justice depart ment's anti-trust division to track down and prosecute any conspira cies to maintain or boost the prices of food, clothing and hous ing. H. Clifford Bangs, former presi dent of the Washington Real Es tate Board who was a grand jury I witness yesterday, said transac tions are being studied in sucn distant spots as Chicago and Cali fornia. The indictment charges that brokers' commissions on sales of houses have Increased by 25 to 50 per cent. Cloudy Skies Expected Here Cooler weather, with some cloudiness until noon, was the forecast for today for Salem and vicinity, as given by the local weather bureau last night. High est temperature was ex per-ted to be around 80 degrees. The local forecast was similar to that for the entire northwest for Thursday and Friday, with temperatures generally expected to drop slightly along with some cloudiness. By tha Associated Prats A three-day midwestern cool sdcII which breathed new life in to crops ended Wednesday, but in the east a siege of hot weather was broken temporarily. Cool weather and rain devel oped in the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Wisconsin but was expected to move aireciiy east. ward, skipping the corn belt areas south of its path. The Chicago weather bureau said tempera tures had risen rapidly in the corn belt Wednesday, reaching around 90 over southern Iowa, the upper 80's in northern Iowa, 85 to 90 in Illinois, and around 85 over most of Indiana. Staff Completed At Silverton High SILVERTON. Aug. 27 Com pletion of the Silverton high school teaching staff was announ red today with the appointment of Philip elites, formerly of urea ham. to fill the position left va cant by Ray Boe who will teach at Lakeview this winter. Clites taught last year at G res- ham high school. City schools will open here cn September 11, earl iest opening date in 25 years. Research The report placed heavy em phasis on the need for basic re search, declaring that at present the United States has "no unified or comprehensive policy on sci entific research or the support of science." The board's report declared "The Soviet Union's 1947 budget for example, is reported to pro vide $1,200,000,000 as compared with outlays of $900,000,000 in 1946. In addition, the Russians have embarked upon a five-year program of steppied-up scientific training, under which they are re ported to be producing 140,000 engineers and scientists each year." Making the trip with Mr. Tru man will be Mrs. Truman, their daughter Margaret Carlos Mar tins, Brazilian ambassador to this country, and his wife, and nearly dozen White House officials. QUITANDINHA, Brazil, Aug. 27 -(JP)- The Inter - American conference gave full committee approval today to eight articles on a egression termed the 'heart" of the treaty on hemi sphere defense. Moving quickly to conclusion of the treaty, the steering committee announced that the final confer ence plenary session will be held next Tuesday and that the treaty will be signed formally in the Bra zilian foreign office in Rio de Ja neiro on the following day. The committee by a vote of 10 to 9 decided that Ecuador scene of bloodless revolt on Sunday would not be a signatory. The committee on voting pro cedures for collective action un der the treaty approved a United States proposal which provides that no signatory nation shall be required to use force against ag gression without its consent. HideoutvNazis Defying Allies, Convict Claims NUERNBERG, Germany, Aug. 27 -(JP)- High nazis, operating from a secret hideout, a convicted war criminal . says, are directing campaign to turn the German people against the allies and back to tha ideology of Adolf Hitler. The story comes from Dr. Karl Gebhardt, personal physician to Heinrich Hunmler, who has been sentenced to hang with Karl Brandt, Hitler's doctor, and five others responsible for the third reich s insane medical program. They were convicted of tortur ing thousands of victims in ex periments that never yielded a single- contribution to medical science. . Meanwhile the United States opened the war crimes trial of 22 directors of the billion dollar I. G. Far ben chemical trust today with the charge that they fostered an "economic' spy system" for Adolf Hitler in . full cooperation with his plans for waging the world's costliest war. . The prosecution disclosed that American businessmen -who were exposed to the spy system will be brought to Nuernberg - to testify against the directors. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, u. S. chief of counsel for war crimes. in a blistering all-day speech as serted that the Farben experts in chemicals, dyes, synthetic rub ber and other war materials delib erately fostered Hitler's war aims eagerly exploited slave labor and waged ggressive war from their aooraiories. - U. S. Blamed By Chinese NANKING, Thursday, Aug. 28 tT")-Several key Chinese cabinet members, discussing Lt pen. Al bert C. Wedemey era report. blamed "repeated mistakes by the United States during and after the war Tor China s "sorry plight. It was reported reliably today. A highly-placed government of ficial said the cabinet members expressed that opinion, during regular cabinet meeting. Cabinet members meeting Tues day dated "the erroneous Ameri can foreign policy" from the Yalta agreement, under which Russia agreed to enter the war against Jipan In return for numerous con cessions, Including railroad rights in Manchuria and use of Dairen and Port Arthur. - OSC TO HEAR TAFT CORVALLIS. Aug. 27 -(JP)- A speech at Oregon State college Sept 27 was added today to the schedule of Sen. Robert A. Taft who will come here after attend ing the state republican meeting at Gearhart NEW AIR SERVICE SET PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27 -(JP) West Coast Airlines announced plans today to add two new flights a day, starting Friday linking Portland and Seattle, Weekly Meat, Tea Rations Take Big Cut ;U LONDON, Aug." 27-()-Britahv sliced her scanty food; ratio thinner, banned pleasure motor ing and outlawed foreign travel; for most of ber citizens today in a series of sweeping raoves to keepv her dollar-less economy off thi rocks. No. 10 Downing, street. Prime Minister Attlee's official residence,! announcing the cuts while tha premier was away on vacation estimated the measures tould. save 228,000,000 pounds ($912.-1 000,000) in the next year more than a third of Britain's 600.000, 000 ($2,400,000) annual deficit be tween exports and imports. f -Pretty grim" wai the typical reaction of the British "little manl and his wife to the news thaf their present weekly meat ratitu which allows about two pcikj chops apiece was being cut tyf one-seventh, that their cherishel tea ration would be held to tt ounces a week (the wartime lout ration) and their occasional dri into the country a thing of th past j Meat Below War Rati i The meat ration was sliced t one shilling's worth (20 cents) week two pence (four cents I thinner than it ever was during the war. i The basic gasoline ration wu abolished completely and onlv priority gasoline will be available. This meant complete ban cii pleasure motoring after October 1. UnUl now the allowance had- permitted Britons to drive 180 miles a month. A slash of IS to IS per cent was ordered in food supplies now used by restaurants and hotels. whicti millions depend upon to supple ment rations at home. Travel Lancbeons Affected In addition, the announcement said, "steps are being taken a limit tne number or, and attend ance at, public luncheons nl dinners. Foreign travel for pleasure after October 1 was stopped by a baa on funds for that purpose. Oyster Beds In Court A naiii PORTLAND, Ore. Aug. 27 . Coos Bay's oyster beds were taw vol ved today in the fourth court action within two years in a pe. tiuon filed by Lee Davenport de manding an accounting of the ad ministration of assets of the Coca Bay Land Owners, Inc. ! The complaint named as de fendants J. R. Barton, E. R. Er rion and'G. R. Munkari. ill nf Salem, of the Coos Biy firm,; 1 and' two officials of the Tides Land Develop ment company ' Olympia, Wash. Davenport as serts officials of the Coos Bay company transferred some of tha company's assets to a trust fundi in Salem, and then assigned th trust'f proceeds to the Tides Land firm. Local Butter, Egg Price Up A two-cent boost In retail butler prices Wednesday increased tha price of a pound of butter toi 81 cents, while butter wholesaled, here at 82 cents per pound. Local wholesale butterfat price were upped as much as six cents this week, according to reports from creameries. Premium credo butteriat waa increased from 8 to 9 cents per pound, number one from II to II cents per pound and number two from 75 to t& cents per pound. Retail egg prices al Jumpavl this week in Salem with local stores selling them at around 7S cents per dozen for large eggs and 70 cents for mediums. RANKIN EYES SENATE TUPELO, Miss., Aug." 27 Uiev Representative John E. Ranki (D-Miss.) said here tdsy that he will be a candidate for th United States senate in the No vember 4 general election to se lect a successor to the late Sen ator Theo. G. Bilbo. i . - Our Senators . 4V Won 12-9 . r